SOARinG Program

The Student Opportunities for Academic Achievement Through Research Program in Greenville is the hub for your research experiences with faculty mentors across the Health Science Center at Prisma Health. As an M1 student, you can match with a full-time mentored research project that takes place in the summer between your M1 and M2 years (six to eight weeks). Applications are due each February.

Culinary Medicine

Take nutrition into your own hands — and kitchen. In the culinary medicine experience, you’ll work in the teaching kitchen of the Center for Culinary and Hospitality Innovation and learn from a senior-level chef who understands the importance of healthy food and lifestyle.

Patients diagnosed with chronic disease often pepper physicians with questions about what foods to buy and prepare to be healthier. Through this training in applied nutrition sciences, you’ll learn to answer those questions for yourself and your patients.

High Value Care

The High Value Care Elective is designed to prepare future physicians to serve as frontline advocates for value-based care within their patient populations and communities. By applying High Value Care principles, students learn to navigate the healthcare system using evidence-based strategies that promote effective, patient-centered decision-making.

This elective emphasizes identifying and reducing low-value care by integrating value-based frameworks into clinical reasoning. Students develop essential communication and leadership skills to support the delivery of evidence-based care and to advocate for high-value practices across diverse healthcare settings. In addition, high-value care concepts are reinforced by integrating them into biomedical module case discussions, underscoring their relevance across all medical specialties.

The course is led by Dr. Karen Isaacs, MD, MPH, and Dr. Maribeth Porter Williams, MD.